Alex

“Alex”, written by French author Pierre Lemaitre, is a thriller not written for the weak stomached. The storyline takes off quickly. Alex Prévost is kidnapped off the street. Her captor beats her, strips her of her clothes and forces her into a wooden crate hung in the air with the intention of “watching her die.” Commandant Camille Verhoeven has very little to work with in his investigation of the missing girl. No one knows who Alex is, where she lives or works—She’s a mystery in itself. Verhoeven makes the mistake of thinking she is an innocent but in looking for Alex, a shockingly unexpected story begins to unravel. In a story of murder, revenge and evilly twisted characters, Alex takes so many twists and turns the reader will constantly question, “Just who is she?” As the pieces of the puzzle finally come together, detectives realize the whole picture is no longer a matter of truth but of justice.

 Rating: 5/5